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(No ModeL) G. A. WATKINS.

WOOD ORNAMENTATION. No. 320,518. Patented June 23, 1885:

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GARDNER A. WATKINS, OF GARDNER, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO HEYWOOD BROTHERS & 00., OF SAME PLACE.

WOOD ORNAM ENTATION.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 320,518, dated June 23, 1885.

Application filed August 27, 1884. (No model.)

1'0 all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GARDNER A. VVA'IKINS, of Gardner, in the county of Worcester and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Surface Ornamentation, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to surface ornamentation by means of pieces of sheet material; and it consists in the combination of elements fully described below.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a plan of a chair rocker with my new ornamentation. Fig. 2 is a section on line w 00 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a section on line y y of Fig. l.

A represents the part to be ornamented, and B pieces of sheet material. The part A is grooved, the grooves forming figures. A piece of the sheet material B is cut to the same shape as the figure formed by the groove, and laid upon the part A so that its edges shall overlay the groove, its main portion resting upon that part of A marked a in Figs. 2 and 3. The filling D is then forced in, carrying with it those portions of the sheet material B which overlay the groove in a manner too well known to require further description. The filling D is secured in any usual way.

In Fig. 2 the ornamental sheet material is held slightly above the other portions of the surface of the part A by means of the supporting portion a, for the reason that the surface of a. is flush with the surface of the other portion of part A; but in Fig. 3 the surface of the supporting part a is lowered so that the outer surface of the sheet material B is flush with or lower than the surface of A.

I am aware that itis not new with me to fasten sheet material around the edges by means of a groove and spline or filling, and make no broad claim to that; but, so far as I know, I am the first to combine the groove forming a figure and the spline or filling D with the sheet material B and the supporting part a, and it is this combination which constitutes my invention, which is a new and very desirable ornament for furniture, carriages, and the like, and which has also the advantage that the sheet material B is not only firmly and securely held around its edges, but is also so supported by the part a that it is not readily injured.

What I claim as my invention is- The above-described method of surface ornamentation, which consists in making a groove in the surface to be ornamented of the outline of the desired figure, overlaying the figure with the ornamental sheet, and securing the edges of the sheet in the groove by a spline, substantially as set forth.

GARDNER A. WATKINS.

\Vitnesses:

l. B. DUNN, F. S. WVHITTEMORE. 

